Group Supervision of Spiritual Directors
September 18, 25 and October 2, 2019
COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This course for supervisors on group supervision of spiritual directors is seminar-style instruction and practice using models of group supervision. It will comprise three one-hour Zoom sessions over the course of three weeks.
In the first session you will meet other supervisors, briefly share your own experience of group supervision, and learn about one particular model of group supervision along with some variations.
In the second session, one volunteer member of the group will bring a case for supervision and the instructor will lead the whole group in an all-for-one group supervision session following the model. In the final session, members will bring and present for discussion their own variants of the model, or other models. Strengths and limitations of the models will be discussed.
By the end of the course, participants will have been exposed to, experienced, and further developed group supervision models and will be better prepared to work out their own style of this important group work.
INSTRUCTOR: Jim Peterson
Jim Peterson is a graduate of the spiritual direction training program at San Francisco Theological Seminary, and has been on the staff of that program since 2000 serving in multiple roles: group facilitator, instructor, supervisor, and supervision coordinator. He has also been serving as a faculty member of the Bread of Life spiritual direction training program since 2006; the Art & Practice of Spiritual Direction training program of Mercy Center Burlingame since 2012, and has been on the faculty team of Mercy Center for its summer workshop in supervision in 2016 and 2018. He received training in supervision at San Francisco Theological Seminary in 2000, and further training from Together in the Mystery in 2013. He has his own spiritual direction and supervision practice in the south San Francisco bay area. Jim also is on the advisory boards of the Contemplative Center of Silicon Valley and of Companions on the Inner Way retreat program. Prior to his entry into spiritual formation work (and overlapping with it for some years), Jim was a research scientist in the social sciences, working at various academic and research organizations for over 30 years in work that included teaching, research, research administration, and publishing. He lives in Sunnyvale, California with his wife, and near his two children and two grandchildren.